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H. W. STRUSS.

TUBULAR BRAIDING MACHINE.

No. 450,684. Patented Apr. 2l, 1891.

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Afro/MKS CII W/T/VESSE UNITED STATES PATENT EEICE HENRY STR-USS, OF NEVYORK, N.

TUBULAR BRAIDING MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 450,684, dated April21, 1891.

Application filed September 19, 1890. Serial No. 365,506. (N o model.)

To all whom t may concern/ Be it known that I, HENRY IV. STRESS, aresident of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented anImproved Tubular Braiding Machine, of which the following is aspecification, reference being had to the accompanyingdrawings, forminga part thereof, wherein-- Figure l represents a plan view of the trackportion of a braiding-machine containing my invention. Fig. 2 is a planview, partly in section, showing the arrangement of toothed wheels andclaws for moving the carriers. Fig. 3 is a side view of a double-braidedtubing made by my invention; and Fig. 4, a crosssection thereof on theline c c, Fig.

This invention relates to a machine for producing double-braided andconnected tubing for the covering of telegraph-wires and analogouspurposes 5 and it consists, mainly, in a novel arrangement of the tracksand disposition of carriers for laying the threads of the braid, saidtracks being constructed of two sets, each set being a double track, andone track of each set crossing a corresponding track of the oppositeset, all as hereinafter more fully described.

For a general type of machine to which my invention relates I refertoPatent No. 1119415, of March 2l, 1871. The class of machine theredescribed is by me improved so far as the arrangement of tracks anddirection of motion of carriers is concerned. Thus in Fig. l it will beseen that I employ on my machine four separate and distinct tracks, onebeing an undulating track d, somewhatin the shape of a cross, althoughit may have a greater or less number ot' undulations, the other being asimilar undulating track l), also shaped like the track c, said twotracks@ b being placed side by side at a distance from one another. Thetrack a is crossed by another track d, which is also undulating; butwhich has an extension at d3 or loop, which projects toward the track b,and in like manner the track l) is crossed by an undulating track e,

which has an extension or loop e3, that projects toward the track a andthat crosses the loop (Z3, as clearly shown. These tracks are used inconjunction with four sets of carriers, the track a having the carriersa2 and the. track Z1 having the carriers b2. These two sets of carriersrun in the same direction; but in the track d the carriers d2 run in theopposite direction, and likewise the carriers e2 in the track e run alsoopposite to the carriers a2 b2. Thus the carriers a2 d2 form one braidedtube f, and the carriers b2 e2 form the other braided tube g, Fig. 3,the carriers d2 and e2, where theycross on the loops (Z3 e3, formingconnecting-links such as shown at 71, in Fig. et, whereby the twotubesfg are intimately connected.

The mechanism for moving the carriers is represented in Fig. 2, beingcomposed` of toothed wheels m carrying claws n.; but in View of thewell-known state of the art it is not deemed necessary here to furtherspecify with reference to each of said wheels how the said carriersreceivetheir motion.

lVhat I claim, and' desire to secure by Letters Patent, isn

In a machine for producing double-braided and connected tubing, thecombination of the undulating track a and undulating track b wit-h theundulatingtrack CZ, which crosses the track a and forms the loop d3, andwith the undulating track e, which crosses the track l) and forms theloop e3, the loops d3 and e3 interlocking, and with a series of carriersa2 b2 d2 e2, and mechanism, substantially as described, for moving thesame, all arranged so that the carriers a2 b2 will travel in the tracksa Z2 in one direction, While the carriers d2 e2 travel in the tracks d ein the opposite direction, substantially as herein shown and described.

HENRY W. STRUSS.

Witnesses:

HARRY M. TURK,

UsTAv SCHNEPP.

